We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.